<section><title>Jakarta Poi - Brief Project History</title>
- <p>The POI project was dreamed up back around April 2001, when
+ <p>The Poi project was dreamed up back around April 2001, when
Andrew Oliver landed a short term contract to do Java-based
reporting to Excel. He'd done this project a few times before
and knew right where to look for the tools he needed.
on Marc's library. Several users wrote in asking to read XLS
(not just write as had originally been planned) and one user
had special requests for a different use for POIFS. Before
- long, the project scope had tripled. POI 1.0 was released a
+ long, the project scope had tripled. Poi 1.0 was released a
month later than planned, but with far more features. Marc
quickly wrote the serializer framework and HSSF Serializer in
record time and Andrew banged out more documentation and worked
on making people aware of the project
</p>
- <p> Shortly before the release, POI was fortunate to come into
+ <p> Shortly before the release, Poi was fortunate to come into
contact with Nicola -Ken- Barrozzi who gave them samples for
the HSSF Serializer and help uncover its unfortunate bugs
(which were promptly fixed). More recently, Ken ported most
- of the POI project documentation to XML from Andrew's crappy
+ of the Poi project documentation to XML from Andrew's crappy
HTML docs he wrote with Star Office.
</p>
joined the project. Glen was ticked off at Andrew's flippant attitude
towards adding graphing to HSSF. Glen got so ticked off he decided to
grab a hammer and do it himself. Glen has already become an integral
-part of the POI development community; his contributions to HSSF have
+part of the Poi development community; his contributions to HSSF have
already started making waves.
</p>
Cocoon Project</link>, only to discover the project had
outgrown fitting nicely into just Cocoon long ago.
Furthermore, Andrew started eyeing other projects he'd like to
- see POI functionality added to. So it was decided to donate
- the Serializers and Generators to Cocoon, other POI
- integration components to other projects, and the POI APIs
+ see Poi functionality added to. So it was decided to donate
+ the Serializers and Generators to Cocoon, other Poi
+ integration components to other projects, and the Poi APIs
would become part of Jakarta. It was a bumpy road but it
looks like everything turned out since you're reading this!
</p>
</section>
- <section><title>What's next for POI</title>
+ <section><title>What's next for Poi</title>
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<p>Next, we've got some work to do here at Jakarta to finish
- integrating POI into the community. Furthermore, we're
+ integrating Poi into the community. Furthermore, we're
still transitioning the Serializer to Cocoon.
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<p>HSSF, during the 2.0 cycle, will undergo a few
hoping to add support for formulas during this cycle.
</p>
<p>We're beginning to expand our scope yet again. If we could
- do all of this for XLS files, what about Doc files or PPT
- files? We're thinking that our next component (HWSF - Manipulates
+ do all of this for XLS files, what about Doc files or PowerPoint
+ files? We're thinking that our next component (HWPF - Manipulates
Word Processor Format) should follow the same pattern. We're hoping
that new blood will join the team and allow us to tackle this
even faster (in part because POIFS is already finished). But